"An Illustrated History of the Big Bend Country; Embracing Lincoln, Douglas, 
Adams  and Franklin Counties; State of Washington". Spokane, Western Historical
Publishing  Company, Publishers, 1904.

JOHN M. ANGELL, who, with his brother, Adam W., conducts a livery business in
Ritzville under the firm name of Angell Brothers, was born in Boone county,
Missouri, September 21, 1863. However, he has been reared in the West, for at
the age of two years his parents crossed the plains by ox wagon to the
Willamette valley, Oregon, in which state the principal part of his life has
been spent. Their journey across the plains was an unusually hazardous one,
owing to the hostility of the Indians, who at different times made determined
efforts to capture the stock of the emigrants, but were as often foiled in the
attempt. When about four years of age John Angell was taken by his parents to
the Walla Walla country, where they remained two years, after which they lived
ten years near Echo, Umatilla county, Oregon. Here our subject attended district
shool and managed to acquire no small amount of education. From Echo the family
removed to Four Mile, near Palouse, Washington, where they lived twenty-one
years, engaged in farming and stock-raising, in which business our subject was
associated with his father. In 1900 Mr. Angell went to the vicinity of Colfax,
leased a half section of school land and farmed for two years, then came to
Ritzville and erected a saloon and livery barn in partnership with his brother.
The brothers own two lots, fifty by one hundred feet, upon which their business
is located, and are in a prosperous condition. Their principal business formerly
was the buying and selling of horses, but of recent years they have given their
attention more fully to their livery business. They have now about twenty-five
head of horses in their barns, and eight rigs. They recently sold three sections
of pasture land in Adams and Whitman counties. Mr. Angell owns, besides his
business property, a residence and two lots in Ritzville. he has one brother
besides his partner, and four sisters, Willis H.; Joella, wife of Alonzo Risley;
Orvilla, wife of Alonzo Jeffries; Jessie, wife of Tin Ringer; and Lucy, wife of
George Gebart.
     John M. Angell was married January 9, 1887, to Alice Childers, a native of
the Willamette valley, Oregon, the marriage taking place at Palouse. Mrs. Angell
is the daughter of Henry Childers, of Elgin, Oregon, who crossed the plains in
an early day. The mother is deceased. She has one sister and one brother: Mary,
widow of John Kincaid; and Thomas Childers.
     To this union have been born four children, Reta, Gladys, John M. and
Radford M., all living at home.
     In politics Mr. Angell is a Democrat, but is not an active party man.
     Mr. Angell's parents were Radford M. and Sarah M. (Nye) Angell, natives,
respectively, of Missouri and South Carolina. The father's father was a native
of Virginia, and a veteran of the War of 1812, and of the early Indian wars.
Radford M. Angell was a Mason of thirty years' standing, and upon his death at
Ritzville, July 10, 1902, he was buried by that order in Palouse. Mr. Angell's
mother is now living in Ritzville.


Submitted by: Georgia Harter Williams, georgiahw@earthlink.net